Month: June 2013

Google

Google CEO: people won’t ‘collapse in terror’ when someone uses Glass in a bathroom

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As reported on The Verge. By Matt Brian Google CEO Larry Page has again moved to reassure consumers over the privacy implications of Google Glass. Speaking at the company’s annual shareholder meeting, Page told investors that privacy fears will fade as people begin to integrate wearable technology into their lives, noting “it is not that big a concern.” Comparing Glass use to taking a photo or video on a smartphone, the Google chief said “you don’t collapse in…

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Microsoft: Internet Explorer 10 Is The Most Energy-Efficient Browser, Uses Up To 18% Less Power Than Chrome And Firefox

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As reported on TechCrunch. by FREDERIC LARDINOIS If everybody switched from Chrome and Firefox to Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 8, we could save enough energy to power 10,000 U.S. households, a new study (PDF) commissioned by Microsoft says. The reason for this, Microsoft says, is its focus on making IE fast and the fact that IE taps into modern PC hardware like native graphics cards to speed up its rendering performance. Let’s face it, when you…

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NY court lifts temporary ban on cab-hailing apps, pilot program to continue

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As reported on Engadget. By Nicole Lee The on-again–off-again status of NYC’s e-hail pilot program is now, well, back on. A New York state court has just lifted a temporary restraining order brought on by the city’s livery cab companies that halted the year-long trial of taxi-hailing apps like Uber, Hailo and Taxi Magic. They argued that using the apps to book cabs counts as pre-arranging a service, which is strictly their territory. After weeks of deliberation, judges sided with the…

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BMW expanding ConnectedDrive with web browsing, Siri, S Voice and Android support

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As reported on Engadget. By Jon Fingas BMW has been refining its ConnectedDrive services for months, but that was apparently just the prelude to greater things: the automaker just outlined a roadmap for 2013 and beyond. The company is rolling out iDrive 4.2 firmware for the 2014 model year that supports web browsing while stopped, iAP Bluetooth control through iOS devices and integration with both Siri Eyes Free and S Voice. The new revision also brings voice search for locations through…

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SugarSync adds remote wipe, scrubs cloud data from Macs and PCs

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As reported on Engadget. By Jon Fingas These days, the danger of a stolen PC resides less in local files and more in cloud access — presumably, no one wants to share their online storage with a thief.SugarSync’s paid subscribers won’t have to worry, as the company just rolled out a remote wipe option. Customers now just have to sign in through the web to purge a Mac or Windows system of both its shared files and…

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Government Microsoft

Microsoft and FBI collaborate to take down $500 million ‘Citadel’ botnet ring

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As reported on The Verge. By Aaron Souppouris Microsoft in cooperation with the FBI took down the majority of the malicious computer networks that make up the “Citadel” botnet ring. A botnet is a network of compromised computers that are generally used to perform coordinated attacks against others. Citadel has infected as many as five million PCs around the world and over the past 18 months the networks are estimated to have stolen more than $500…

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Fired Reuters Employee Previews No-Nonsense Premium Breaking News Site MatthewKeysLive

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As reported on TechCrunch. by JOSH CONSTINE Matthew Keys is getting back into the news game. He previewed the beta of his new, paid-subscription worldwide breaking beta news site Matthewkeyslive.com tonight, but has since taken it down. The site focuses on delivering facts fast, and features Keys pulling in news from Twitter, App.net, local news affiliates, and video feeds while adding his commentary. Keys famously was fired from his social media editor job at Reuters after allegedly assisting hackers to attack…

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Government

Report: NSA Secretly Collecting Phone Records Of All U.S. Verizon Calls

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As reported on TechCrunch. by GREGORY FERENSTEIN The National Security Administration is secretly collecting phone record information for all U.S. calls on the Verizon network. “Under the terms of the blanket order, the numbers of both parties on a call are handed over, as is location data, call duration, unique identifiers, and the time and duration of all calls,”reports The Guardian, which broke the story of the top-secret project after it obtained record of a court order…

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Hardware Dev

Acer shows off Aspire R7 Star Trek edition, we go eyes-on at Computex

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As reported on Engadget. By Zach Honig No, we’re not making this up. We’ve always thought the Aspire R7 bore an uncanny resemblance to the USS Enterprise, and now it appears that Acer’s officially in on the fun, too. Our friends at Engadget Chinese stumbled upon a new version of the starship-esque convertible at Acer’s Computex booth today — the company manufactured just 25 of these special-edition notebooks, one of which it plans to offer up on eBay from June…

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Dispatch and Boxer aim to be your email apps of choice on iOS

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As reported on Engadget. By Edgar Alvarez Even though we have the likes of Sparrow and Mailbox already competing to be the one to handle email duties on your iOS device, chances are a couple more options wouldn’t be frowned upon. Here’s where the rebranded Boxer and newcomer Dispatch come in. The former, which was previously known as Taskbox, is an app that thrives largely on a swipe-based UI, while the latter describes itself as an “action-based” client that gives you quick…

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